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The Human Orchid: BLOOM Exhibition, curated, 2026

A large screen hanging in a dark hall shows fly orchids against green, with subtitlesDetail of a relief of orange interlocking formsClose-up of a screen showing hands cutting raw meat, subtitle reading Måttligt regn, moln

Eavesdrop Exhibition, curated, 2025–26

A long printed textile in orange, grey and blue hung on wires along a white wallA printed textile in orange and deep red seen from below, hanging in a wave with small photographs fixed to it, a wheeled board on the floor beyondA glass medicine vial and a painted penguin figure set into slots in a curved white surfaceClose-up of grey cable bundles held by metal clamps around a glass object

Intervals #2: The Rhyme of Memory and Time Exhibition, curated, 2025

A visitor on a bench in front of an ultra-wide blue projection of factory workers in whiteThe wide projection seen from the dark room, a bench in frontClose view of the projection: women in white hair nets sitting against a wall

They Know We Know They Lie Lecture performance and film, 2020–25

Film still: three performers in a dark room, one reading aloud, a projection of a tower block on the curtain behindFilm still: a path between a block of flats and flowering lilacs in Malmö, with the words they are the lifelines in a paused worldThe film projected on a large screen in a concrete basement, a bench with scripts in front

Beyond Books Public programme, curated, 2020

A desk with a camera, laptops, a mixer, a microphone and a sheet reading Violeta Parra, Nueva Canción ChilenaThe streaming set-up in the Index bookshop: camera on a boom stand, microphone on a tripod, laptops and an iPad on a white tableLive stream: an iPad showing a photo of Víctor Jara next to handwritten notes on La Canción Nueva ChilenaLive stream: an iPad showing dance footage, with Isabella Solar Villaseca in a small window aboveVideo call: hands building a structure from dark cast blocks, Vibe Overgaard in a small windowLive stream: a slide of a diagram on innovation and science fiction next to Lou Mouw and an iPad

The Weaver / Imposture of Immediacy / Sight Machine Installation, three videos, 2019

Two steel tripods with small screens in a gallery with a herringbone floor, a third screen on the wallA single steel tripod holding a small screen, cables running to the floorClose-up of a small screen showing a grey trench, mounted on a steel tube with a circuit board

Photo: David Stjernholm

Deterritorialized Bodies and the Multiplicity of False Origin Prints on steel frames, 2018

A white gallery with prints of sculpture fragments hung from steel frames and a framed print leaning against the far wallA framed print of fragments of a sculpted head and torso leaning against a white wallClose-up of a print hanging from a steel frame: halftone fragments of a sculpted body

In-Transparency & Opacity Exhibition, solo, 2018

A white room with windows: a long printed text hangs from the wall and runs across the floor, blue boards lean against the far wallA large black and white print of tree branches seen from below, hanging from a rodDetail of a blue board with photographs of a beach and short texts

By Way of Other Directions Film, 18 min, 2018

Lúcio Costa's plan of Brasília drawn over the lights of the city at nightSketches for Brasília spread on a table, a magnifying glass over a photograph of a figure on a bridgeRoyal palms in silhouette against the evening sky in Brasília, government buildings behind

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